You may be looking for "Nelson's Farewell" which is about the sudden and explosive removal, in the wee hours of the morning, of a relic of English Imperialism in Dublin, to wit, the column and statue of Lord Nelson that was (I believe) outside the main post office. The version I have comes from The Dubliners. It begins: Now, poor old Admiral Nelson is no longer in the air, Tooral-ooral-ooral-ooral-oo. On the eighth day of March in Dublin City fair, Tooral-ooral-ooral-ooral-oo. From his stand of stones and mortar He fell crashing through the quarter Where once he stood so stiff and proud and rude. So let's sing a celebration, it's a credit to the nation. To poor old Admiral Nelson, tooraloo!

Thank you Alex, but I got that song song about Nelson, that song is in thhe dadabase. I heard more of the song and it goes like this comes from the chorus: Up went Nelson in O Dublin Up went Nelson in O Dublin.

I heard three Irish men sing this song so it must come from Ireland.

Well we just have to see about this lyric, I have looked in the dadabase but with no luck. bless, bless skarpi Iceland.

Refreshing this old thread in the hope that someone new may have input. I remember hearing this (on a record by the Dubliners?) in the late '60s - the tune is "Battle Hymn of the Republic" a.k.a. "John Brown's Body"

Nothing to do with the song but a piece of folklore none the less. Many years ago I recall a score of 111 was known as a Nelson - one eye, one arm, and one a***hole. (For Americans delete one asterisk)

Lord Nelson stood in pompous state upon his pillar high And down along O'Connell Street, he cast a wicked eye He thought how this barbaric race had fought the British crown Yet they were content to let him stay right here in Dublin town

Chorus: So remember brave Lord Nelson boys, he had never known defeat And for his reward, they stuck him up in the middle of O'Connell Street

Well for many years, Lord Nelson stood and no one seemed to care He'd squint at Dan O'Connell, who was standing right down there He thought "The Irish like me or they wouldn't let me stay That is except those blighters that they call the I.R.A."

Chorus

And then in 1966, on March the seventh day A bloody great explosion made Lord Nelson rock and sway He crashed and Dan O'Connell cried in woeful misery "There are twice as many pigeons now will come and sit on me"

So remember brave lord Nelson boys, he had never known defeat And for his reward, they blew him up in the middle of O'Connell Street

- Words by Tommy Makem on subway train in New York Mar. 8, 1966 Copyright

Hey Skarpi, if you're still around I finally tracked this down though with one word I can't quite make out:

UP WENT NELSON

Up went Nelson in old Dublin (x2) All along O'Connell Street the stones and rubble flew As up went Nelson and the pillar too

One early mornin' in the year of '66 A band of Irish laddies were knockin' up some tricks They though Horatio Nelson had overstayed a mite So they helped him on his way with some sticks of gelignite

Up went Nelson in old Dublin (x2) All along O'Connell Street the stones and rubble flew As up went Nelson and the pillar too

The Irish population came from miles around To see the English hero lying on the ground The Dublin corporation had no funds to have it done But the pillar blew to pieces by the ton, ton, ton

Up went Nelson in old Dublin (x2) All along O'Connell Street the stones and rubble flew As up went Nelson and the pillar too

A crowd of lads and lassies from a dance nearby came out To see the bits of Nelson lyin' all about A [gusser?] from the Coombe says we'll have to have a care In case the corporation put King Billy there

Up went Nelson in old Dublin (x2) All along O'Connell Street the stones and rubble flew As up went Nelson and the pillar too (x2)

I was actually working in Dublin when the pillar was blown up. I've even got photos of O'Connell Street looking down from the top of the pillar taken from a week or two before.

I'm sure that the Guarda and authorities knew that it was going to happen, because that evening all the parking places in O'Connell street near the pillar were closed off. Whoever actually did the demolition job was an expert - he had to be - the building on the West Side of the pillar was the Post Office where Pearse read the Declaration of Independence and which was held siege during the Easter Uprising - an important Republican monument. The pillar was dropped neatly on itself completely in line with the street with very little damage done to the surroundings.

Oops! Forget I said that - just checked his discography and it's not listed. I had five drunken days in Kilkenny in May 1966 and obviously my memory of that week isn't as good as I thought it was........

Further to Dave Bryant's post from some time ago, I heard that when the Irish Army demolished the remaining stump, the blast removed half the windows in the area. The general consensus was that they should have left the job to the boy that did the first part.

Wikipedia has the lyrics to UP WENT NELSON, and it shows the missing/doubtful word as "gossoon"--which is probably an anglicized spelling/pronunciation of "gasúr", the word MartinRyan suggested.

Furthermore, Wikipedia says:

"Up Went Nelson" is a song by The Go Lucky Four (a group of Belfast school teachers Gerry Burns, Finbar Carolan, John Sullivan and Eamonn McGirr) that was number one on the Irish music charts in 1966 for eight consecutive weeks.

It was sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and is about the destruction of Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.